Pointers in Slate.

[Michael Walter]

Two obvious possibilities:
- You do it as file.c does (large static array & return the index as handles)
- You return the pointer casted to LongInt, which is kind of fugly for
several reasons, though.

Cheers,
Michael


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:44:54 -0300, Pupeno <pupeno at pupeno.com> wrote:
> I started working in a Cairo/X backend (I need a couple of xlib calls, so, I'm
> making a backend for those calls as well). I'm making the xlib wrapper
> separatly of the cairo wrapper so if someone wants to use the xlib wrapper
> and not use the cair wrapper, he/she can.
> I'm starting bit by bit... based on a cairo program that draws a spline.
> The first thing the cairo program does is this:
> Display *dpy = XOpenDisplay(0);
> So I made a wrapper for XOpenDisplay... I pass a byte array to it that is
> decoded to a char* (that 0 is a char*), but then, what do I do with dpy ?
> Should I pass it back to Slate ? should I make an array of opened displays ?
> I then will have a lot of other pointers... most of the time I don't care
> what's inside... it is just for passing arround.
> Thanks.
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